Blog Entry 6
To facilitate the research and design of your web 2.0 class web site, please interview your colleagues, students, their parents and, if possible, your principal about what to include in a course web site. If your school or district has a technology integration specialist, arrange to interview him or her.

Your summaries and discussions of these interviews are to inform the discussion topic of a next blog entry.

Blog 5
As a teacher, what range of Web 2.0 applications do you need to integrate into your web presence? What are your goals? What are your students’ needs? How best to facilitate communications with your students and their parents? What about your principal’s expectations and/or concerns?

The answers to these and other questions are to inform the discussion topic of a next blog entry.

Just recently, I just conducted our state of the schools address. One of the… Continue

Web log 4
Remix means to take cultural artifacts and combine and manipulate them
Into new kinds of creative blends. Until recently, it mainly referred to us-
ing audio-editing techniques to produce "an alternative mix of a recorded
song that differed from the original.

Lessig (2005) argues that digital remix constitutes a contemporary form
of writing on the scale of a mass cultural practice and raises issues demanding
serious reform of current copyright… Continue

Reflections on readings in regards to project tomorrow
Students are so involved in the way they communicate with each other, the pop worlds text messaging and myspace. Students have so many ways and avenues to communicate.
Notes about Chapter 4
Tagging is all about using words to categorize and describe content. As a result of fact, a new term, folksonomy, was coined as a result of the practice of tagging in an online environment.(Braun) Tagging enables… Continue

These readings help start the thinking process for our project tomorrow . It is essential to have a thorough understanding of how students learn and the student's perception of how they learn. After the readings, I find myself wanting to be more in tune with the ways my students learn and process information. I have also discovered that I learn in very similar ways to many of my students. For example, I like rigorous instruction in which there is a variety of things going on in the classrooms.… Continue